Browse Forums Home Finance Re: First home buyers in here 4Nov 25, 2013 6:04 pm Our build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=70984 Re: First home buyers in here 6Nov 30, 2013 4:21 pm archetto We are 22 & 25 and both first home buyers/builders. The block is 650 sqm and the house will be 2 story (due to the views available), got to buy the land first of course but want to make sure we aren't getting way in over our heads as a first mortgage but so far it's sounding alright? As long as you can both comfortably pay off the mortgage and you are happy to borrow that amount, then yeah I don't see a problem with it. My husband and I first home buyers 26 & 28, we ended up with a great starter deal (one year fixed, it's an in-house deal) and only had to go in with 5%. We originally had a price for house and land going over 400k. Thankfully stuff started to fall through and we weren't set on the location. We've since moved further out, and saved 80k on the land alone. We can now comfortably pay back the mortgage, put extra ontop to get ahead and save. Hope this helps So it looks like we finally have some movement on site! Definitely later than expected, but I'll take any progress at this point. I'll drop by over the weekend to get… 5 27716 We already paid for somfy motors for the blinds. The quote above was purely for “pre-wiring” so the blinds company can install the motors and blinds. That’s why we… 5 16275 11 41642 |